Provinces in example sentence

The Iraqi state, established in the 1920’s by British imperialist planners (with Winston Churchill in the lead), is a strange pastiche of three disparate provinces of the old Ottoman Empire: Mosul in the north with a Kurdish majority, Baghdad in the center with a Sunni Arab majority, and Basra in the south with a Shia Arab majority.

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These red dots are American states, and the blue triangles are Canadian provinces.

I also experienced the goodness of strangers, especially when we would travel in remote provinces in the Philippines.

He kept control of provinces with the most legions.

He established consistent taxation for all provinces, ending private exploitation by local tax officials.

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